Krupashankar Chaube, Director, Kaltech Digital, Mumbai talks about the prospects of servers and networking in India. During lockdown, their business went down for a while, but as Cloud and Datacentre demand picked up, the demand for servers and networking professionals also went up. This gave an impetus to this segment.
How is the technology of servers and networking evolving in 2022-2023?
Krupashankar Chaube - The face of server technology got changed with the introduction of virtualisation. It leverages the capabilities of server from computing to networking as well as storage.
The changes in network technologies are due to the transition to remote work led to higher adoption of virtual private networks, multi-factor authentication, virtual desktop, and unified communications and collaboration.
How is the business growth of servers and networking in 2022-2023?
Krupashankar Chaube - According to IDC, worldwide server market spending expected to recover strongly in 2022 and continue with a CAGR of 10.7% in a Five-Year Period. It’s growing at over 6% year over year in each of those two years (2020-2021).
Networking products market size is projected to reach multi million by 2026, in comparison to 2022 Network Management Market 2022 Current and Future Growth at a CAGR of 6.3%.
What are the challenges faced by you in this field? How do you resolve these challenges? What are the new opportunities in servers and networking?
Krupashankar Chaube - Challenges are multi-fold like technological, specific technology changes, evolution of the technology, integration of the multiple technologies.
Updating, upskilling and collaboration are the continuous resolutions practice.
The opportunities in server are driven by the business needs which are always gets addressed an adoption of an appropriate technology and tech environment. The opportunities in networking are also many like product sale and managing the network which itself are diversified in nature.